DetachPolicy
Detaches a policy from the specified target.
Note
Because of the distributed nature of AWS, it can take up to five minutes after a policy is detached before it's ready to be deleted.
Requires permission to access the DetachPolicy action.
Request Syntax
POST /target-policies/policyName HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json
{
"target": "string"
}URI Request Parameters
The request uses the following URI parameters.
- policyName
-
The policy to detach.
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.
Pattern:
[\w+=,.@-]+Required: Yes
Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- target
-
The target from which the policy will be detached.
Type: String
Required: Yes
Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.
Errors
- InternalFailureException
-
An unexpected error has occurred.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 500
- InvalidRequestException
-
The request is not valid.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- LimitExceededException
-
A limit has been exceeded.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 410
- ServiceUnavailableException
-
The service is temporarily unavailable.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 503
- ThrottlingException
-
The rate exceeds the limit.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- UnauthorizedException
-
You are not authorized to perform this operation.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 401
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
